On 19 May 2026, at 14:57, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> On 5/18/26 4:00 PM, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6 May 2026, at 0:52, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>
>>> Windows support was deprecated in 3.7, it's time to remove it.
>>> The next bit is the actual datapath implementation.
>>>
>>> Also removing mentions of the Windows kernel support from the
>>> releases documentation and vswitch man pages.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>
>> One small nit below, but the rest looks good to me.
>>
>> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>>> index 1db42ad5c..e7227820f 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/faq/releases.rst
>>> @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ Q: What Linux kernel versions does each Open vSwitch
>>> release work with?
>>> source code was completely removed from the Open vSwitch source tree in
>>> 3.0 release.
>>>
>>> +Q: Does Open vSwitch support running on Windows (Hyper-V)?
>>> +
>>> + A: Support for the Windows datapath, a.k.a. Hyper-V, was deprecated
>>> starting
>>> + with Open vSwitch 3.7 and the source code was completely removed from
>>> the
>>> + Open vSwitch source tree in the next release.
>>
>> Should we put 3.8 in here explicitly?
>
> I left it this way intentionally. We'll likely go with 4.0, given all the
> significant changes in the feature set. I can put the actual number here
> as part of the release commit.
Ack, sounds good to me.
>> Also, my spellchecker complains about a missing command after 3.7.
>
> I can add one.
>
> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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